MASSACHUSETTSPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowResolved

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 3, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

638

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital →2 incidents on file

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital (MA) reported to HHS on 2011-08-03 a Theft/loss affecting 638 individuals. A workforce member lost an unencrypted external hard drive while traveling, containing ePHI including names, medical record numbers, dates of admission, medications, diagnoses, and treatment information. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action, including a new encryption policy and staff retraining.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 3, 2011

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed638 affectedView incident

Name: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital
norm: brigham and women s hospital and faulkner hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 638nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the covered entity implemented corrective actions.

During the incident: Notified HHS, the media, and all affected individuals
Provided identity protection services to affected individuals
Sanctioned the workforce member involved
Retrained the workforce member and division staff on ePHI safeguards
Established a mitigation workgroup to review ePHI protection policies and procedures
Created a new external hard drive encryption policy
Changes made: New external hard drive encryption policy implemented
Mitigation workgroup established for policy and procedure review
Workforce retraining on ePHI safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Aug 3, 2011
Raw hash: f07a7fb156ebd720ca9b04ae0582c9837844e882485d0560505a5b3c69538314

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Reporting entityBrigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital

Victim entityBrigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, the media, and all affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing